Community of Theon

Theon's most lasting buildings are religious and communal. The Handbook says Holy Trinity Catholic Church was established in 1889, that its church dates from 1913, and that Moravia Hall was built in 1938. The school merged with Jarrell's in 1948. The community has had about twenty residents in recent decades, and its only business was the Possum Inn, a tavern and cafe that in 1984 was noted for a bowl of live rattlesnakes on its bar. The plaque puts the Catholic church and school at nearby Corn Hill; the Handbook places the church at Theon.

What the plaque says

Community of Theon Attracted to the rich farm land, immigrants from Austria, Bohemia, Germany, Moravia and Silesia came here in the 1880s-90s. This community grew around a cotton gin built about 1883. A Catholic church and school operated at nearby Corn Hill. A post office, named "Theon" for the Greek "to God", opened in 1890. A rifle club sponsored dances, rifle contests and other socials. Farmers started a beef club, butchered mean monthly and shared it with all families. After the post office and school closed, the cotton gin continued to serve this area.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Williamson County Courthouse — 9.9 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Inner Space Cavern — 12 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• The Round Rock — 18 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.
• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 27 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.

More markers nearby

• Zion Lutheran Church — 1.4 mi
• Daniel Harrison — 2.7 mi
• Cornhill Cemetery — 2.8 mi
• Corn Hill Community — 3.1 mi